My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find…

When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad…

— Jesse Owens

History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their…

— Angela Merkel

Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,…

— Joseph Stalin

Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.…

— Roman Polanski

All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled…

— James Cross Giblin

The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them;…

— Tom Wlaschiha

If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.

— Malcolm X

I was fascinated by the story of FW Murnau, one of the most famous directors in Germany, where I come from.

— Udo Kier

“Ne ispada li, onda, da je egzistencijalni umor rezultat premalog, a ne prevelikog angažovanja? Postajemo li umorni usled toga što olakšavamo sebi situaciju, a…

— Bernhard Schlink

As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open…

— Anonymous

Once the war began, the government could do anything 'necessary' to win it; so it was with the 'final solution of the Jewish problem,'…

— Milton Mayer

I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else has, which is a tax rate in…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

“I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue living. It’s…

— Tucker Elliot

“. Despite the considerable horror they had felt when the SA men were bellowing crude anti-Semitic slogans, in retrospect the joke-tellers were very much…

— Rudolph Herzog

There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of early Nazi…

— Noam Chomsky